5 Years after the Curse [Jinx Family Blitz]

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It has been five years since he went and got himself killed, five years since he left all of us to chase glory. And now he lies in the ground, 6 feet deep as we are left to fill the void. He should be standing beside me as we sit by the fire, breathing in the salt from the sea. The rest of the family sits by, Charm playing with the younger ones as Spell and I look out towards the horizon, the space between us where Curse should be screaming louder than the silence. His absence freezes my heart while the fire warms my skin, leaving me in a horrible state of limbo. This tears at me while I try to keep up my responsibilities to my family, how can I remain tough for them while I'm crumbling under pain of our loss, my loss. Curse was my brother, my confidant, my best friend and yet he just left like we were nothing, and I never got the answer I needed as to why he did it. The limited time we had to talk before he left was spent with all of us, which meant the time I needed alone with him was never achieved.

I have to remember the time that I have with my current family members is irreplaceable. To be present in this moment was hard at first; I just kept rewatching the moment when he fell on the salt field replaying his last words over and over again, "I love you all, take care of each other." If he truly loved us why did he leave? What was he going after when he had everything he needed right here? I'll never be able to figure him out, yet were any of us able to figure him out? He was always the enigmatic one, the one that was different from the rest of us. Maybe that's why he was cursed. One of my siblings says something to me that I missed, so I turned back around to them.

"What was that?"

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Curse Jinx. His act of volunteering weakened the bonds of our family, yet strengthened them at the same time. He was gone, and that was a piece of the Jinxes, now broken, but somehow, it'd brought some of us, such as Dragon and I, quite a bit closer to one another. I was always protective of my siblings- even the older ones- but since there was no longer anything I could do to protect Curse's life and well-being, I'd continue on by protecting who he was as a person. He was family, he was my brother, and he was my friend. Most importantly, however, he was a good person. I'd never really told him often enough how much I'd loved him, and, to this day, I regret it.

I'd been sitting in our home in District Four, teaching Dragon a card game, when something else caught my attention. When my little brother and I finished what we were doing, I told him I'd be back in a little bit, stood up, and walked over to where my eyes had been drawn. Phoenix, one of my brothers, had seemed like he was one of the most broken by Curse's death. They'd been extremely close, and I wished I'd known how to comfort him.

Unfortunately, I'd never been good at comforting people. Instead, what surfaced in my mind was an encounter with a girl I'd had not too long after Curse's death. Her name was Avada. Avada Kedavra-Jinx. I wasn't sure how many people in my family knew about her, other than myself, but she was a half-sister to my siblings and I. When I'd first met her, we'd gotten into quite the argument, or perhaps what could even be considered more of a fight.

"Hey, Phoenix?" I started. "I need to tell you about something... important."

Apparently, when I said this, however, Phoenix was in his own little world to the point that he didn't hear me.

"What was that?" he asked. I decided that I'd jump in, right then, to tell him exactly what was on my mind.

"Do you know the name Avada?" I inquired. "Avada Kedavra-Jinx?"

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I am eternally indebted to my family, for everything that they have done for me over these past five years. Drifting has become commonplace as I struggle to regain my sense of self, yet my family compelled me to be levelheaded, persistent, and sound during the first few years. There are times in which my mind meanders and detaches away from reality, where it goes I'm not sure of sometimes. That was occurring when Charm started to ask me something.

"Do you know the name Arvada? Arvada Kadavra-Jinx?"

Confusion spreads across my face, and a million contrasting thoughts go through my head. Why would she be asking about another Jinx? Would it even be possible to have another family member that I don't know about? No, it can't be, we have always been a close family, a secret of this magnitude wouldn't be able to stay hidden for so long.

Why would she come up with such a thing?

But Charm was never one for fantasies or idealizations, she is always present, astute, and quick-witted, so for her to allude to such rumors is bizarre. What has she been up to since I last talked to her for her to find a whole new family member and why would our parents so willingly keep information like this a secret? Was she doing this to fill the void Curse left in our family, like I have done with many flings, have I become that unapproachable?

"Charm," I start, my voice heavy in concern and quiet bewilderment, "I haven't heard of that name before. Where did this come from?"

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Charm Jinx

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My dear brother Phoenix had concern in his voice when the response he made to my inquiry emerged from his parted lips. The fact that I mentioned another individual who carried the same surname as the rest of our family, but was seemingly unknown to all of the Jinx children except for myself certainly seemed to have thrown him off guard at least a little bit. At this point, I felt that perhaps he was doubting that the name that I had mentioned was actually even that of a real person. The problem was, it was a real person, and I wasn't sure how to exactly go about explaining that to Phoenix or any of my other siblings.

"Charm," he began, his concerned tone clearly present, "I haven't heard of that name before. Where did this come from?"

"Well..." I began, not quite sure what the best way to explain all of this was. "I guess I should explain."

I paused for a moment.

"There's this girl that I met, not too long after Curse passed away. That was her name," I continued. "Avada Kedavra-Jinx. She says that we have the same father." I felt awkward, saying this to Phoenix, or any of my family members, for that matter. The way I had worded it, it was as if I was accusing our father or cheating on our mother. Although, I suppose that it didn't just seem that way, as I really was. If Avada had the same father as the rest of the Jinx kids, that had to be the case, given her age.

I hated to think of what our father would have had to have done if Avada truly was our half-sister.

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